What Therapists Fight About (chapter 2)
Added 2025-05-16 11:00:05 +0000 UTCDr Kirk Honda explores the 20 topics that therapists fight about.
00:00 Self-disclosure
05:25 Harm reduction
18:30 What's your opinion?
20:13 Reasonable group placements
31:49 Irvin Yalom
33:52 Astrology
40:58 "I'm so proud of you"
43:17 Ozempic
44:51 No secrets policy
54:21 Use of AI
1:08:33 How long people should be in therapy
1:10:35 Psychoanalysis
1:24:30 Psychiatrists
1:24:54 Faith based counseling
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May 16, 2025
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Does the harm reduction therapists argue about include safe consumption sites, clean supplies, Narcan, PREP, condoms etc. Or just in terms of abstinence or not abstinence? Obviously some therapists will disagree with all harm reduction practices, but is harm reduction as a whole as big of a topic like what you touched on in this episode? Also, and this is directed at the proverbial you, harm reduction like you talked about, so no abstinence and trying to control using, can be a step towards abstinence. It can get people in the door of recovery. Would these bone heads rather have someone walk away and never try recovery because they cannot commit to abstinence today, or have someone try their best to control their use and then possibly realize that they do need abstinence and now because they have already been in a recovery mind set, it feels more attainable! Furthermore, thousands of fully sober addicts tried harm reduction before “harm reduction” was a common term. It’s one of the main signs of a problem in abstinence only groups “have you tried and failed to control your drinking?” “If you feel that you can control your drinking go out and experiment, but we will be here if you need to come back,” That’s literally harm reduction from a 12 step POV, those who decide they can’t control their drinking may come back, those who can control it don’t, and either way some never come back. Edit- This topic is obviously meaningful to me 😂. I am a fully abstinent addict who is passionate about harm reduction. It makes no sense to me that people wouldn’t encourage all types of recovery, the more accepting we are of all types of recovery, the more likely people will get on a path that works for them. Which beats people dying of addiction.
MK Average
2025-06-23 23:16:35 +0000 UTCNot sure if you mentioned Ozempic in part 1 or 2 but I think the issue with it is that it stops the “food noise” people with BED or other eating disorders have. Therefore, the disorder isn’t actually being cured it’s just symptom relief. You stop the Ozempic, the “food noise” comes back and you repeat the weight gain process.
Christine Ullrich
2025-06-13 22:23:37 +0000 UTC
